Senior Category Manager.Frozen Product

• Provide specific requirements on Annual Supply Agreements to each category manager in line with the guideline/negotiate some of the important contracts and review them before final approval.

• Set specific category requirements/strategy for each category on managing product categories and evaluate category performance to be in line with sales budgets & forecasts.

• Ensure the implementation of the pricing policy for division categories.

• Allocate & cascade the total commercial income (margin) by department to category managers based on the company directions & monitor the progress on regular basis.

• In product sourcing, the BU Head identify & evaluate possible products and their sources and & recommend them to the Commercial Director.

• Meets with vendors on regular basis to review business performance, build future relations and resolve any conflicts/issues to ensure partnership.

• Meeting vendors with low availability as per the policy set by the Commercial Director and take necessary actions to overcome and resolve issues pertaining to it.

• Supervise Products’ promotion and sets directions for the category manager(s).aligned to promotional policy

• Supervise promotional offers with major vendors, approves and manage alignments for promotional plan to marketing department.

• Develop own brand strategy and align with key vendors and ensure that innovation in category is cascaded to reports and measured

• Take ownership of inventory level and quality through engagement with supply chain, category managers and operations teams.

Education

• Bachelor Degree in Business or Engineering

• Fluent Arabic & English speaker

• Knowledge of using Microsoft office (Excel, Word & PowerPoint)

• Knowledge of using an e-mail software (Outlook)

• Strong negotiations skills

Experience, Skills & Competencies

• 7 years’ experience in FMCG environment